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Larissa Dowdney
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“Oil was the key commodity underpinning the transition into the new age of empire and the US needed to control the area that produced most of it. Israel is the reminder that, they have stayed the same within this iteration of empire. Aid may be the carrot, but the stick can be wielded at any time. By offshoring its violence to Israel, the US can maintain the pretence of benevolence in world affairs.“
— Mar 27, 2026 02:12PM
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Larissa Dowdney
is on page 188 of 288
“Marx was so blinded by White supremacy that he was (and far too many of his disciples remain) unable to understand that the most oppressed, the true revolutionary class has always resided outside the West because of the racist nature of capitalism. The new so-called radicals today are no different, presenting alternative visions of the future clouded by Whiteness.”
— Apr 16, 2026 02:59PM
Larissa Dowdney
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“We urgently need to destroy the myth that the West was founded on the three great revolutions of science, industry and politics. Instead we need to trace how genocide, slavery and colonialism are the key foundation stones upon which the West was built.”
— Jan 28, 2026 06:48AM
